“They should take those gut feelings they have and apply them toward making a better work environment, product and process.”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Self-Organizing Teams
“For a self-organizing team, having each team member realize that they're not stuck in a situation, but can always choose to do something about it, is one of those turnaround moments.”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Self-Organizing Teams
“Use commitment language in daily standup meetings, in one-on-one meetings and everywhere promises are made.”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Commitment Language
“For commitment language to work for integrity to exist, you have to insist that people commit only to things in their own control.”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Commitment Language
“I can't promise to fix a specific set of bugs by a specific date. Bugs often aren't as innocent and easy to fix as they may seem; my commitment can easily be broken.”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Commitment Language, Bug Fixes
“Effective code reviews are not done via a tool or remotely — there done when your sitting side by side with the person or pair who wrote the code.”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Code Reviews
“This problem of hiding important information is prevalent in our industry because we technical folk like to believe in miracles.”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Commitment Language
“Feedback needs purpose and it should enable purpose”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Tech Leadership, Feeding Back
“You're being paid to keep taking the team to the next level of performance and professionalism.”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Tech Leadership
“For some, being in a constant state of survival mode and fixing things that should have already been fixed is within there comfort zone.”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Fire Fighting, survival mode
“It's almost as good as pairing: each code check-in gets personally reviewed locally or via remote call. This provides learning because it involves a conversation.”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Dealing With Bus Factors
“One thing is certain: the way we work with our teams must improve. We must become better adjusted to the current reality and needs of our team, business and ourselves.”Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Teams, Retro